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Daily News Stuff 25 September 2019
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Tech News
- Smartphones are just slabs of black glass. It takes real talent to make them this ugly. (AnandTech)
Why not put an RGB water cooler on it while you're there?
- AMD's upcoming B550 chipset is a step up from the X470, but a big step down from X570. (Tom's Hardware)
Compared to the X470 it adds 2 SATA ports and 4 PCIe 3.0 lanes. No PCIe 4.0 at all, not even for the uplink.
- A Pennsylvania DA has been busy deploying a China-grade (in more ways than one) surveillance network. (TechDirt)
WTAF as the kids are saying these days.
- eBay's CEO is stepping down. (Tech Crunch)
As far as I can tell, the worst that is happening at eBay is some investor grumbling, and this is fairly routine.
- Facebook has said it will not censor or fact-check political speech. Journalists are outraged. (Tech Crunch)
- WeWork continues to implode. (Sydney Morning Herald)
I found a couple of more detailed articles at Tech Crunch and The Information but they require registration and/or payment to access.
And I'll note again that WCCFTech called it before any of the big business news sites.
- Double it, add one, and use the next larger unit.
There are three kinds of estimates: Educated guesses, the fever dreams of software development project leads, and tech startups.
- CentOS 8 is out. (ZDNet)
Great, except that I moved to Ubuntu for all my new stuff about three years ago.
Disclaimer: Worms.
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"Smartphones are just slabs of black glass. "
The design is garish, but it's a nice change from a boring slab of black glass. Whenever I can order a phone that's a different color, I do.
The design is garish, but it's a nice change from a boring slab of black glass. Whenever I can order a phone that's a different color, I do.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, September 26 2019 12:52 AM (Iwkd4)
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I really like the Mi Mix Alpha. With its wrap-around OLED screen you can make it look like what ever you want. On the other hand, $2800...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, September 26 2019 12:56 AM (PiXy!)
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Hey, double it and go up a time unit is my estimate technique too.
Posted by: Jay at Thursday, September 26 2019 12:58 AM (mrlXS)
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"No PCIe 4.0 at all, not even for the uplink."
That appears to be the price for no active cooling?
At some point I'll unplug all the case fans on my x570 board so I can see if the chipset fan actually makes any noise. A 360mm radiator will keep the CPU cool long enough to tell.
That appears to be the price for no active cooling?
At some point I'll unplug all the case fans on my x570 board so I can see if the chipset fan actually makes any noise. A 360mm radiator will keep the CPU cool long enough to tell.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, September 26 2019 12:59 AM (Iwkd4)
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Re: CPU cooling, when I was a penniless high school student, I had a passively-cooled desktop, but only because the heat sink fan died and I didn't have $15 to buy a replacement. It was an Athlon 64X2, and happily peaked at 240-250F for several years, until I got a job and was able to replace the whole thing.
Posted by: Jay at Thursday, September 26 2019 01:03 AM (mrlXS)
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I've seen worse phones, but I also own a Moto e4 plus, which is heavy enough to bend time and space in its vicinity, so my opinion may not count for much.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Thursday, September 26 2019 07:56 AM (+qGjD)
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The e4 is a perfectly cromulent phone. I used to use a g5s plus, which is basically the same phone with a slightly higher-end CPU. The nice thing about the size was the big battery and the fact that it was more sturdy than glass-wrapped phones.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, September 27 2019 12:31 AM (Iwkd4)
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